Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 2 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 3 | The question was asked : we know that he is a sound and effective Prime Minister ; but is he also a leader who can save the Conservative Party from the fate that undoubtedly awaited it at a general election had Mrs Thatcher remained in office ? |
| 4 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 5 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 6 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 7 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 8 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 9 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 10 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |
| 11 | Even Marguerite 's tight shoulders relaxed and , as he slowed the car and finally brought it to a halt before the house , Alain made a sound of deep satisfaction . |
| 12 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 13 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 14 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 15 | In the end , he did n't — he started bouncing , so he got one hard wallop and promptly jumped it from a standstill . |
| 16 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 17 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 18 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 19 | He lightly scored his finger on the edge of the spur , gasped and quickly dipped it in the bowl of water on the lavarium before bathing it in a little wine . |
| 20 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 21 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 22 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 23 | The following day , Elinor again hid her medication under her tongue , slipped it into her handkerchief , and later flushed it down the lavatory . |
| 24 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 25 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 26 | He gave her an estate at Alva as a dowry and probably accompanied it with a large sum of money . |
| 27 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 28 | Then , after a moment 's thought , she also removed the package she 'd brought with her , and carefully stowed it in the drawer of the bedside table . |
| 29 | Charles took his bride 's hand and tenderly kissed it on the banks of the River Dee . |
| 30 | They ‘ hot-wired ’ a prison van and repeatedly rammed it into a security gate . |